Affiliate Sites get DMCA complaints for using sales images?

It has come to my attention that a consulting company is sending out DMCA complaints on behalf of Alpine to sites that are Amazon affiliates and carry their products – just as Amazon does… for using their sales text and product images :-) … can you believe it?

To me this looks like just a cash-generating thing for the company that's doing some copyright and DMCA issue management for the vendor.

( I know their name, but I'm not sure if I want to write it here – they could imply that it's a DMCA issue as well and want me to remove the post :-)

But anyhow, it's obvious that no human person performed a review on the nature of an affiliate site that is built to increase sales for a company that created those product sales copies and images to help Amazon and it's 100,000s of affiliate drive sales.

I wonder if I should mail Alpine about that?

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